Adam al-Sirgany

Instructor Biography:

Adam al-Sirgany, MFA, author, and editor whose freelance work has ranged from Wiley books to Journeys Shoes ads. He is the Director of Flyover Books, Exec. Director for the nonprofit 1WC, and a contributor to the textbook Designing Context-Rich Learning by Extending Reality (IGI, 2023). His short story collection More Hell was published by Whiskey Tit Books in 2025. 

Instructor Statement:

As humans, our meaning is made through story. Creatures capable of making believe, our impulse is to innovate. This holds true for those of us looking to brand our businesses and for those aiming to write the Great American Movie Franchise by way of a weekend novel. Our desire for newness, to know what our lives could manifest next, is fundamental to our being. I try not to think of myself as having students or clients or jobs. My classroom is a workshop. In it, we take every opportunity to play because we are perpetual collaborators experimenting with the questions of what the next great work could be and how we can shape it, word by word.